We’re going to talk a little bit today about a specific detectors going to be the Technics Delta 4000. We are into a little bit as to why i pick this detector and why I think it might work for you or might not work for you.

I gotta tell you I’m very pleased with this detector. It’s got all the features on it that I needed.

So for now, I will talk about the basic ideas of how the Teknetics Delta 4000 detector works and if it works out for you, maybe you will wanna run out there and grab yourself one of these machine.

Features

So what we have right here is the actual screen display you’re gonna get. The layout of control box of the Delta 4,000 is pretty simple.

As for sure you will have your power button, your mode, menu, pinpoint and then your up and down settings to make adjustments within your menu.

On the right side of the screen you’ve got your depth, battery level indicator, your target identification number and then you’re gonna have the icons down below to give you an idea as to what it is that you’re actually finding in the ground.

Pinpoint

The pinpoint is deadly accurate; when you find that pinpointer, you hover over your target, that target will be right there. Smack in the center of the coil, and the depth indicators will gonna tell you exactly how deep it is for the most part.

You should be able to get down there and get whatever is in there, be the coin, ring or what have you.

Sensitivity

When you’re out in the field and detecting, if you turn it on and it start to go badly on you, its mean that you got some type of interference around you. So you gonna have to cut your sensitivity down toward your detectors stable.

Just don’t go all out with the sensitivity, because it will giving you misleading or false signals.

Discrimination

Next thing we’re going to discuss here is the discrimination level. When you hit menu and select the discrimination, the Delta 4000 had pre-programmed the discrimination level at 40.

This review will acquaint you with the basic features of the detector and learn about all its features to enable you to hunt with this detector most effectively.

First, make sure that you read the owner’s manual from cover to cover. Don’t try to memorize anything; you’re just trying to become familiar with your detector.

To turn on the detector press and release the power touch-pad. The ace 150 features two indicator scales. The stark rectangles on the lower scale indicate what target your detector will sound on. When it sounds, a single cursor will appear on the upper scale to show what you found.

Target ID

The target ID showed just above the display screen will help you to identify your target. As you press the mod touch-pad to select from one of the three hunting modes; all metal, jewellery or coins, you will see some of the rectangles disappeared (on the display).

The target ID will be useful in helping you determine whether or not to dig. The depth scale indicates this target is four inches deep.

Locating your target precisely will enable you to recover it by digging the smallest hole possible.

The hunting mode

All metal mode is designed to detect all metallic objects. If you select this mode, it will detect all of the metal underground.

The only thing that differentiates the metal is the sound of the target. And also, the Ace 150 will recognize the metal and icon ID will appear on the display screen, whether it is coin, iron, pull tab etc.

When you are searching in the all metal mod, detection of any metal target will be indicated by an increase in sound, and the cursor will always appear on the upper scale, when you detect a target while hunting in any of the Aces three modes.

If you select the coin mode, your Ace 150 will sound only on targets represented by the remaining visible rectangles, but you’ll still see a cursor appear for every metallic target you find with no sound made.

That’s right; the Ace 150 let you see on the upper scale every target as you find it. Plus
The depth scale will indicate how deeply that target is buried.

Until you gain experience, it is recommended that you hunt in the all metal mode and dig all targets that you discover.

Remember that although every target will always indicated by a cursor on the upper scale, your detector will sound only on those targets, whose cursor matches a segment darkened on the lower scale.

Draw an imaginary X on the ground with the search coil at the place where maximum sound occurs. A technique favored by some veteran treasure hunters is to scan back and forth over a suspected target, then move to one side to make a perpendicular scan over the same location.

The air test and sound

Ace 150 will produce different sound when it detects a different metal. Targets with the high conductivity such as most US coins produce Garrett’s exclusive coin alert, the high tone.

While targets with medium conductivity such as jewellery, nickels or foreign coins will produce a medium tone and the iron and nails produce slow pitch audio signal.

No matter what kind of detector you hunt with, air testing will help you to understand all its controls.

The knowledge you gain by air testing any detector will enable you to use it more effectively when you take it to a beach or park to hunt for coins, jewellery and rings.

Plus it will help you avoid finding pull tabs and similar trash.

Sensitivity

Of course you’ll be tempted to set sensitivity to the maximum to hunt as deeply as possible. There will be times however, when conditions cause erratic sounds which you can eliminate by reducing the sensitivity.

When such conditions occur, make certain that you were scanning with your coil at a constant high. You might find it helpful to raise the coil in inch or two.

Conditions in the area may sometimes require that you search at reduced sensitivity. Always began operating at the factory pre-set sensitivity setting, which will be appropriate for most environments.

You can increase sensitivity to the level that conditions permit. Attempting to operate its sensitivity above the level that permits quiet and stable operation may actually cause you to miss deep targets that you would have found had you not pushed the detector.

Incidentally if you ever want to return to your detectors settings to those set at the factory, press and hold the power touchpad for about five seconds or until you hear two beeps.

The headphone Jack

The headphone jack is located at the rear of the control housing. Headphones are a valuable accessory for any metal detector. They are particularly essential in noisy locations where it is difficult to hear sounds from the detector.

Batteries

All Garrett detectors are designed to maximize battery life. The four AA batteries that came with the ACE should last 20 to 40 hours.

Remember when you turned on the detector by pressing the power touchpad, the battery indicator flashed briefly on the left side of your screen. When the symbol remains lighted it’s time to replace your batteries.

To reach them gently slide the lead forward and lift it off, permitting you to remove the four old batteries. Markings on the detector will indicate the polarity required for installation of you new batteries.

Make certain your batteries are installed properly and securely, but do not force.

After you install them position the control panel led and slide it back snugly. When storing the detector for longer than about 1 month, you should remove its batteries.

Garret Ace 150 complete package

If you are planning to buy Garret Ace 150, please bear in mind that you can choose various packages while you ordering it. You can either buy a basic package, or you can choose the ones that come with different accessories like bags, coil, a protector and also other things.

Headphones

Garrett ace represents the highest quality in metal detector manufacturing with other quality accessories from Garrett like the headphones which will mask outside noises and allow you to hear all the signals made by your ace.

Super sniper and larger coil

The stock coil of the Ace 150 is the Garrett Pro Performance Ace. This is a new coil, apparently they use to have more rubbish one but this one is quite good.

I guess the good thing about garret ACE series is that you can put different coils, especially when you enter the stage where you want to buy a larger coil or a smaller coil like the sniper coil.

Four and one-half inch Super Sniper search coil is a specially suited for finding coins were hunting in tight places. Also available is the 9 by 12 inch coils which will help you discover larger and deeper treasures.

Coil protector and Tools

One tips for beginners is to protect all your search coils with covers to save it from extreme damage and lengthen their life span.

The cover apparently doesn’t interfere with your detecting so if you’re going to sell it at a later stage, you would just hold its value because it’s not too damaged.

You also need a tools to recover your discoveries. Garrett offers this kit with pouch, probe and digger. All of this stuff is what you need for recovering coins or any other kind treasure. It is an accessory that you need to purchase separately.

Books

Finally Garrett’s publishing company offers a number of books designed to help you find more treasure. The new successful coin hunting is filled with how-to tips and success stories about going hunting.

Conclusion

Garret Ace 150 is a marvellous instrument. For years the garret and Ace names have been synonymous with coin hunting excellence.

This ace 150 detector is one of the easiest to operate of all Garret machines and the compatibility with this machine is phenomenal.

The Garret Ace 150 is the basic model which is the one that has lease function. You can discriminate with it as well and you can choose to have the sound on or off for certain items.

After you have hunted with the Ace 150 for only a short time, you’ll be surprised at how proficient you have become with it.

Do not expect to achieve the greatest accuracy and success however, until you have used this detector for at least 100 hours or more.

Don’t forget to take Mister Garrett’s advice to search only in the all metal detection mode with no discrimination for at least 10 hours during your learning phase and to dig and study all targets.

For many people, beginning their adventures in metal detecting start right here with Minelab Xterra 305.
The Xterra 305 is lightweight, easy to use with audio/visual ID and 12 point discrimination. This machine let you choose what target that you want to dig.

The control panel

Power button – on and off

The pattern button – scrolls through discrimination patterns. It has 2 preset discrimination pattern as well as the all metal pattern that doesn’t reject or discriminate any metal.

The accept reject button – Used to accept and reject certain targets that Xterra 305 detects them by turning on and off the individual discrimination segments and display.

All metal button – Toggles between current discrimination patterns and the all metal pattern. All metal means that the xterra 305 will detect all metals regardless of what they are.

Ground balance button – Activates ground balance function. This is use to adjust the detector to compensate from mineralization and different type of soil.

Menu button – use to enter the main menu at any time of the detectors is turn on. The menu button also use to scroll to all the settings of the Xterra 305.

Pinpoint/Detect – This button has 2 functions. It turn the pinpoint on and off and the button also use to exit out of the main menu and back to the main detecting mode.

Plus and minus button – adjust the settings in the menu and also scrolls left and right through the discrimination segments on the LCD screen.

Now that you are familiar with the control panel, let’s go with the quick start guide to get you up on the detecting right away.

Right after you turn on the machine, first thing you need to do is choose the discrimination pattern. If you are new to detecting, we always recommended that you start out with pattern 1. You will see the 1 or 2 on the left hand side of the display screen.

Again, as you are new to detecting, let start out on pattern 1. Next step is to set the sensitivity and the volume. From the factory pre-set, your sensitivity is already set at 6. The factory pre-set is just perfect.

To set the volume, go to the menu again and choose the volume section. We always recommend you turn it all the way up. 1 of the unique features of the Xterra detectors is that when you plug in a headphone, the volume automatically lowers to a comfortable level and then you can make an adjustment from there.

Noise cancellation of the Xterra 305

Noise cancelling is use to lessen or eliminate electromagnetic interference. Noises like from other detectors or any other things from the environment.

By using the menu button, you are going to pick the noise cancel icon and then use the plus and minus button to pick the quietest channel.

How to ground balance the Xterra 305

Hold the machine about 3 or 4 inches of the ground and press the ground balance button. As you pump the machine up and down, you will use the plus and minus button to change the pitch of the detector and listening to where it changes from a high tone to low tone, or to where the detector has the same tone going up and down.

The coil

Xterra 305 comes with 7.5 hertz all metal type coil and it works very well on dry sand but not really well in a very mineralized soil and also in wet sand. There is a few different type of coil that you can put on the xterra 305 such as the VFlex Technology coil or any other Xterra coil instead of the stock coil.

I recommend the DD coil for this machine because it works a lot better with the mineralized soil.

The shaft

The Xterra 305 is part of the minelab adventure series, features the family pack which includes 2 lower shaft, the standard, and the more shorter shaft for kid making the Xterra 305 a perfect choice for everyone in the family to begin their adventures.

The shaft of this metal detector is really nice and strong. Its not flimsy compared to the most other cheap entry-level metal detectors.

The menu button will give you sensitivity for the first option, second option is discrimination and last option is volume. You can set the discrimination at zero if you just wanna test it out and you don’t mind to pick up anything it detect.

This machine is very popular detector at the moment. There is a couple of places you can buy them in the US and UK, at the shop or online store.

This machine is an entry-level detector, and its got an automatic ground balance so there is no ground balance you need to do. Just simply turn it on and you can go hunting.

It is quite a nice looking detector, very sturdy and light weight so you could probably swing this machine for hours.

The EuroTek Pro runs deeper than its competition. It is a multi-tone machine with large and easy to read 100 segments visual target ID and not just target categories.

It also has 79 segments of the adjustable discrimination, adjustable variable high tone breakpoint, adjustable volume, and memory of your preferred settings – discrimination, sensitivity and volume.

It has an expended easy to read iron range/depth icon and 39 segments of resolution with an iron indicator icon that momentarily flashes when ferrous objects are present.

Better target separation and superior performance on mineralized ground with the 11” DD coil and coil is also fully submersible all the way up to the control box.

Other great features is the digital iron audio control, also known as FeTone and the depth indicator can be set to display either inches or centimeters.

The EuroTek has a cool feature you won’t see from any other detectors. It has a removable central rod, making this machine truly adaptable for smaller users or young children or perhaps you are searching on vertical surface, like a riverbank or walls.

The EuroTek armrest is also fully adjustable to meet almost any length requirement.

Very inexpensive machine for what it can do. It’s really great for a smaller user and probably another great choice for a starter machine with a good price.

There is not much in the box when you received it, just the detector, and a user manual. It’s got a 5 years limited warranty through Teknetics and its made right here, in USA.

This machine can be use with or without headphone. It’s got a slot for your headphone which is not included with the purchase of the machine. You need to the headphone separately. It accepts any headphone with larger pin and fit in
there and will work just fine.

This machine works on the beach and land, proven with some coins found on beach, lying 30cm deep underneath the beach sand. I think it’s a great entry level machine and if you are looking to get into metal detecting, I thing this might be your machine.

Hi everybody, today we have the bounty hunter gold digger. You can pick this up for a bout $60 to $70 on Amazon.com. It is marketed for the little kids and for people that are just learning the hobby. If you have a friend, family member or even you yourself are unsure if you will enjoy metal detecting, this might be the detector for you.

For $60 to $70 you don’t have to invest a lot for a metal detector. It will go to about five six inches and it will eliminate most trash items. So what else can you ask for, right?
Let’s not get too biased, but in my opinion its a fantastic machine for that price, but you make your own decisions.

Here we’re gonna run over some features of it, run a board test and check out some discrimination and recovery speed on it. The recovery speed on this I will tell you it’s fantastic.

Lets look at the face plate

So you get a little sensitivity meter up there, ignore that, it is junk. It will bounce around anytime, that it beep basically. On the left hand side we have a power meter or a power knob.

Turn it On and Off . It’s of at about the 7 o’clock position, turn it on to about eight o’clock and then you can crank it all the way up to about 4 o’clock position, its max up on sensitivity.

The right knob is the trash Eliminator or discrimination, on off you are looking at about the 8 o’clock position. Turn it on to about 9 o’clock and you can crank that all the way up to 4 o’clock position like the power knob and to the 6 o’clock position.

The Air Test

So 6 inches on air test, you’re gonna look at about five-and-a-half I’m assuming. You take off about an inch roughly.
There is no determination on soil, certain soils are gonna be just like an air test. If you have a really high mineralized soil you’re gonna get a lot less depth.

This machine is great for a little coin shooter, it’s not super deep. If you got a shallow park, and you are a beginner that just wants to learn, this one is great little detector. You will not gonna go wrong with this.

This machine is a great trash terminators, really great on hit a coins, so if you like dimes, coppers and and quarters you know you will hit them with this for the discriminator all the way up.
I really have a lot of fun with it even though I have more advanced machine from bounty hunter, I still have a lot of fun with this.

I’m not trying to sell anybody, that’s just my personal belief. I really think this is great for $60 t0 $70

This amazing little $60 detector with a seven-inch considered coil passes the nail bord test where i have seen a few videos on YouTube that some $400 to $500 machines totally failed on the nail board test.
I’ve even seen a machine that cost over $1000 do not so well on this test. This is a be and left machine, no pulse induction or anything like that.

If you want to see a live dig with this machine, it got plenty of footage on YouTube.com. You know you don’t wanna keep your F75 or $600 to $700 machines in the truck.
You can throw this in the car or at the back of your truck, you see a nice spot when you drive-by and hop out, you can detect the place real quick.

If they have nice hit you bring it out. A great purpose for that.

This is really great for kids to just start in the hobby but not that small kids 6 to 9 years old, because this machine is a little heavier. So teenagers 11 to 12 years old preteens gonna do great with this.

Also for adults who just getting into the hobby. I’ve only been doing this roughly a year now so I’m not a veteran by any chance but I do have two machines that are better than this and I still use this.

I love this thing, it’s so much fun. For 60 bucks you get about 56 inches maximum depth out of it , it has great discriminator, amazing recovery speed and separation. Take it for what it is, the bounty hunter gold digger. I’m not trying to sell to anybody, make your own assumption and your own conclusion.

As soon as you turn the detector on, you will see a few indicators on it which is sensitivity level and your battery indicator. There is also depth gage.

The lower square blocks are the accepted targets which correspond to the photos above it. When you look at the mode button, you will noticed that the Garret Ace 250 has several different mode.

Once you scroll to the mode button it will start off with an all metal, and then jewelry mode which will knock out iron and foil.

You will also get a custom mode with default, it’s just like the coin mode. But you can program this mode and it will save it.

Next is relic mode which is accepting everything but iron. Then you will have a coin mode which will discriminate out iron, foil and pull tab area. So all you’re really going to hit on is the coins and anything else that falls in that range.

To change the mode, all you have to do is move your discrimination button, when you see a small icon under the coin, just hit the eliminate key that will either bring an object in or taking an object out.

So if you want your custom mode to include just above the foil range to put another notch to that, if you want to get rid of zinc pennies you could go up to that area and hit eliminate button.

The custom mode can eliminate everything but silver targets, dimes etc. It’s all up to you to decide.

Sensitivity is 3 quarter by default and you can adjust that based on ground conditions, if you don’t receive any feedback or chatter you can turn the machine way up and if you’re receiving a lot of feedback you can turn it down until you have an acceptable level of noise.

Ace 250 is a silent search machines and I’ve noticed it’s very stable in my ground conditions so you can run it really pretty wide open. Once you locate a target, push the pinpoint, when you go over the item you will get a signal.

As the indicator grows higher it means the target is actually in the center of the coil.

The tone

One more thing about the machine before it is that the ace 250 is a multi-tone machine which I really like. You don’t have to continuously stare downward and get a neck ache you can just sweep and listen for tones.

If you are on the coins mode and test it over the nail, you will see a little indication picking it up but it’s not giving you any sound. If you swept over a penny you will get the sound and indication on the screen.

Like I said I really like to listen for the tone and not constantly stare at the screen for prolonged period of time. Because it seems like if you have your headphones on and you’re looking down for two or three hours, it can be a bit fatiguing on your neck.

The coil

The ace 250 with it little stock coil gets very respectable depth. There are other coils available which is a larger coil I think like a 12 inch coil and there’s also the 11 inch double D coil which I would think would be a great coil for this machine.

The verdict

Overall I’m very impressed with the ease of use, stability and really respectable depth with the stock coil.

It really did well beside it was heavily hunted by me already so there is pretty amazing that it pulled some stuff out and I am sure every time I go I will get a lot more.

So I really like the ace 250 and I would say that this is a great choice for the beginner metal detectorist and for anyone that wants an affordable well-performing metal detector machine.